Nvidia CFO Colette Kress: hired thanks to her kids' gaming habits, now a billionaire
Scobleizer · x · 2026-11-13
Scobleizer resurfaced the backstory of Nvidia CFO Colette Kress: in 2013 Nvidia had gone two years without a permanent CFO, was worth under $10B — the smallest company she'd worked for after 8 years at TI, 13 at Microsoft and 3 at Cisco — yet Jensen Huang pursued her anyway.
What sealed it: her sons, 8 and 10, whose favorite games ran on Nvidia chips, told her to take the job.
Since then she helped land the Mellanox deal over Intel, watched Nvidia pass $1 trillion, and became one of the only CFOs ever to become a billionaire. Scobleizer adds she was floated as interim CEO.
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